finger
kapa
konianaker
konianaker
konuwak
kwanasanas
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Example: Ornamental: The tiny seeds, appearing as a powder, are used to decorate one’s face during kastom ceremonies. The plant is used when the fruit is yellow.
Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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kwanepit
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Example: The leaves of this plant are used to treat diarrhea. Take a handful of leaves, chew them and suck out the liquid and swallow it, then spit out the fiber and all that remains in the mouth. Also known to be good as a cattle feed.
Scientific name: Desmodium canum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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mai táhapwar
makhum
marao
nahpao akwes
namatamai
namatamai
namatamai
nanen
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Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Hunting: Flying foxes and pidgeons are known to eat the fruit of this plant. As a result, hunters will cluster about these trees to hunt these animals.
Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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narparip
nathan
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Example: Timber. Birds are known to eat this fruit so people can hunt near the tree. Unspecified medicine.
Scientific name: Myristica fatua, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nawes
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Example: When the fruit is ripe, it is put in a pot with water. Fill half of a large bag (2 liters) with fruit, add this to 2 liters of water and macerate the fruit in the water. Drink 2 cups/day of this extract, morning and afternoon, for one week to make skin oily when it is too dry. This is necessary, for example, when a person drinks too much kava and thir skin dries out. Eat young fruits as a protection from someone who wants to do you harm. It is said that the fruit has 10 eyes, and can watch after you. Cover fish with leaves to cook in a fire. Crush and boil pieces of the stem and leaves and dri
Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nekira
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Example: Kastom medicine to ascertain the type of sickness a person has. Take two small 6 in. long branches with leaves, and place this on the person along with another unspecified plant. Will help diagnosis.
Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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neknapus
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Example: The leaves of this plant are warmed over a fire and put warm on the legs of a person who is cold or has a headache, such as from a fever that comes with the flu. See 3076 for additional comments on this technique.
Scientific name: Acalypha wilkesiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nier
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Example: Wood is hard to make house posts. Stem to make bow for hunting birds, fruit bat.
Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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noawatikerehy
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Example: The stem of this variety is good for canoe-making as it will last for many years of use
Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nuapam
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Example: Agricultural: When it is time to harvest the first crop of yam (~ April 1st), the 1st yam (’Nuk’) is put inside the hole from where it was harvested with one or two green leaves of this plant.
Scientific name: Oxera lehuntei, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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pawpawuk pitew
penesu
pranawhi sei kijirimak sa namritaik
pranawhi sei piak sa namritaik
rayai
sap sap
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Example: For an earache, take a double handful of leaves, mash, and squeeze in your ear.
Scientific name: Calyptocarpus vialis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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tapatou
tukros ~ tukraus
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Example: Stem used to plant kava (use it like a spade) but even when you have a spade, you should still use this to dig the hole. The leaf is used to make laplap, a food made from taro or yam with coconut and other foods added. Take the leaf and wrap the laplap and then roast the package on the fire or cook the leaf in a pot of water.
Scientific name: Cordyline fruticosa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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warakou pirei
wipin sarapiran
yéung